Bizarre, beautiful clouds—known as mother-of-pearl clouds because they resemble the inside of a pearl oyster shell—have been caught on camera high in the sky over Norway. These polar stratospheric ...

Photographers have captured breathtaking photos of "rainbow clouds" shining in the clouds. The multi-colored clouds are known as polar stratospheric clouds (PSCs) and look similar to auroras blazing ...

WRAL viewers submitted photos of beautiful clouds they saw in the sky before Wednesday night's storms. WRAL meteorologist Elizabeth Gardner said they're actually quite common. Other WRAL Top Stories ...

Noctilucent clouds form at the edge of space, more than 80 kilometers above Earth, in the coldest part of the atmosphere.

The dark skies in the Arctic Circle recently shone with ethereal multi-colored light. But this jaw-dropping spectacle was not caused by auroras. Instead, the iridescent rainbows were caused by clouds ...

The effect is known as irisation or iridescence and is caused by diffraction of sunlight or moonlight by very small particles. These are usually water droplets but, in theory, any particles that are ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Wednesday morning, just after a rocket launched from Cape Canaveral Space Station at 5:13 a.m., skywatchers in Northeast Florida witnessed a stunning spectacle in the twilight sky ...

A view of the skies on Monday morning, shot on the 180 through the ABC 30 hands-free dashcam. kfsn FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Did you happen to look up this morning? If you did, you saw an amazing sight ...

The mission studied energy transfer in space. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A suborbital launch created violet and green lights ...

There are two things you usually need for stargazing: dark skies and clear skies. But if you live in the northern hemisphere like me, this isn’t the time of year for dark skies. And if you live in the ...

Shiny clouds lingered in the Florida sky in the hours after SpaceX launched its latest mission from the Space Coast early Thursday morning (Jan. 26). SpaceX launched 56 Starlink satellites from Cape ...